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A photo of a three-player game of Warhammer Underworlds. It's played on three rectangular boards sitting together in a T-shape, there are tiles marked out with hexes, and the artwork is all dark blue like you're underwater. At the bottom closest to the camera are the Shadeborn, four lithe elves in very dynamic poses with very pale skin and wearing deep purple clothing. At the left are the Gorechosen of Dromm, a three-fighter warband consisting of very large meaty-looking warriors in large red armour, one of whom is clearly part daemon because he's hunched over and has MASSIVE arms and huge horns sprouting from his head. And lastly at the right are the vampires of the Crimson Court, who have pale blue skin, elegant armour, and red cloaks, with blood dripping from their weapons and the corners of their mouths.

A closeup photo of the bloody battle at the beginning of round two. All four of my Shadeborn are within one or two hexes of two of the vampires of the Crimson Court, with a third standing just behind them. And behind _them_ are the Gorechosen of Dromm, two within charge range of any of the Shadeborn or Crimson Court, and Dromm himself standing a little further back in the distance.

We were going to have a bad movie night with @wobin@aus.social and another friend, but said friend had to cancel because he was coming down sick so instead we had @wobin@aus.social over anyway and played Warhammer Underworlds instead! (The original edition, not the new one.) I played the Aelves of the Shadeborn, @yayKM@aus.social played the Khorne's finest, the Gorechosen of Dromm, and @wobin@aus.social had the vampires of the Crimson Court.

Man it was a hell of a game, the start of the second round consisted of an incredibly brutal three-way fight between all of us, and the Crimson Court lost all but one of their warriors before the end of that round. My Shadeborn were doing okay, but I lost two warriors during the second round which denied me a couple of objective scoring opportunities, then Sylark was killed during the third round by a ridiculously long-range charge of 8 by the Crimson Court's remaining warrior Vellas von Faine. The Gorechosen only lost a single warrior right at the end (granted they only start with three), taken out by Valyssa of the Shadeborn, and I was able to score two objectives right at the end, which meant that the final score was 8-8-7, with the draw being between the Shadeborn and the Gorechosen! I'm honestly amazed that the Crimson Court managed to get so close with how badly it started for them.

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Posted on 7 February 2026, 23:34

A photo of Herax Skullgrinder's fighter card with upgrades on him.

We had @wobin over today for games and a barbecue! We mixed it up a bit and went back to Warhammer Underworlds, me with the Shadeborn (that I haven't played before), @yayKM with the Gorechosen of Dromm, and @wobin with Lady Harrow's Mournflight.

Round one was an absolute shocker for me, I lost both Drusilla and Valyssa to @yayKM's Gorehulk, and she was in a commanding position and it looked like it was going to be a blowout. Things turned around in the second round though, and I managed to kill the Gorehulk and Dromm and not lose anyone else and it was 8-8-2 Gorechosen/Shadeborn/Mournflight at the beginning of the third round. The Skullgrinder Herax was upgraded to be an absolute BEAST, I'm not sure we've had quite this many upgrades on a single character in any game before. 😅

The final score ended up being 12-8-5 to the Shadeborn thanks to an objective that gave me three glory at the end of the third round. I definitely want to play the Shadeborn some more to get my head around them, and really need to get around to painting up both Domitan's Stormcoven and Ephilim's Pandaemonium because they're such cool miniatures.

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Posted on 15 March 2025, 20:34

This afternoon we went over to @oysta@oysta.au's for a game of Warhammer Underworlds! (The old edition, not the new one: we play infrequently enough that I can't justify buying a bunch more stuff).

I played the vampires of The Crimson Court, @yayKM had the sneaky aelves of the Shadeborn, and @oysta@oysta.au played Nurgle's finest The Wurmspat. The final score was 15-8-8 to The Crimson Court, but @yayKM had quite a comeback and scored five glory right at the end, which would have made for a VERY tight game except I managed to net SIX glory shooting me out in front to 15. 😅 Definitely want to play again sooner than six months from now (the last game we had was in June, oops). And maybe that'll give me some impetus to actually paint the coughtencough warbands I still haven't painted yet. 🙃

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Posted on 3 January 2025, 18:59

A photo of the game board of a Warhammer Underworlds game. The artwork on it looks like a bunch of gnarled roots and it's covered in hexagons that indicate distances. Closest to the camera are Ironsoul's Condemnors, three heavily-armoured warriors in deep blue and gold armour wielding maces and shields. Facing them are the Shadeborn, four lithe elves in very dynamic poses with very pale skin and wearing deep purple clothing.

First game of Warhammer Underworlds with the new Gnarlwood rules, Ironsoul's Condemnors vs. the Shadeborn!

I used Battle Mallet's suggested Nemesis deck for the Condemnors because it turned out the one I had put together a while back sucked, and it was very fun, but ended up very one-sided, oops. It was partially due to some lucky rolling on my part, but we called it half-way through the second turn out of three total because I'd wiped out @yayKM's warband entirely and the score was already 9-5. Fighter of the match goes to Brodus Blightblade who single-handedly killed two of the four enemy warriors outright (the first one in the first activation of turn one) and did two out of three damage to a third one that allowed me to ping that third one for an extra one damage to kill him.

I really like the new rule changes for activations specifically, and the Nemesis format is great.

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Posted on 6 January 2023, 21:52

A photo of a two-player game of Warhammer Underworlds. It's a combination miniatures/deck building game played on a board with hexes on it, the artwork on the board looks like it's in a sea cave or something. Closest to the camera are four vampires with red cloaks on, and facing them are four lithe elves painted mostly in deep purples.

First game of Warhammer Underworlds in a little while, the vampires of the Crimson Court vs. sneaky aelves of the Shadeborn. It was a very low-scoring game, I won with the Court 9-7 but on THREE separate occasions @yayKM needed to roll a critical success (essentially rolling a 6 on one single D6) or one of her characters would die, and she managed it all three times.

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Posted on 19 December 2022, 22:00

A photo of a game of Warhammer Underworlds. It's a miniatures game played on a board with hex tiles on it, on my side are three very large armoured warriors, and facing them are four lithe and much more lightly armoured elves.

I took Khorne's finest for a spin tonight, and while they ended up winning 14-5 (and are quite fun to play, to boot!), at the start of the last round it really could have gone either way. My leader had one single wound left and I had several things that relied on him being alive. 😬

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Posted on 6 November 2022, 21:32

A photo of a game of Warhammer Underworlds. It's a miniature-and-card-based game played on boards with hex tiles on them. On the board were my warband of six armoured skeletons, four spooky ghost-looking things, four lithe elves, and three lightly armoured humans alongside a big S&M-looking goat-man.

Mid-week gaming this week was a FOUR-player game of Warhammer Underworlds! Unsurprisingly we only got through one round, but one of the players hadn't even played before. I managed to eke out a win on 8 glory, and Kristina came back from nowhere to finish on 7.

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Posted on 26 October 2022, 23:19

A photo of a two-player game of Warhammer Underworlds. It's played on a board with hexes on it, the artwork on the board looks like it's in a sea cave or something. Closest to the camera are five Skaven (ratmen) assassins, and facing them are four lithe elves painted mostly in deep purples.

Well, I might have done a fantastic job painting the miniatures, but good god was the standard deck that Skittershank's Clawpack comes with rubbish. I couldn't do half the stuff, scored all of 2 glory by most of the way through the second round, and we gave up at that point.

Fortunately Kristina said the Shadeborn deck was a lot of fun, so that's good at least. I'll need to pull the Clawpack deck apart and make it better.

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Posted on 15 October 2022, 22:16

A photo of four painted miniatures. They're all elves in various dynamic positions and have cloaks that turn into... not quite smoke at the ends, and the cloaks have been painted this INCREDIBLY deep and rich dark purple colour. They've got some leather clothing that's a deep burgundy colour, their pants are black, armoured parts are silver, and they've all got rich gold clasps holding the cloaks together. The leader lady has a big staff with a bright turquoise crescent moon thing on the top, and she's got a mask on that hides her face that's got gold around it and the same bright turquoise for the faceplate. The bases have been painted in a deep blue then drybrushed with a much lighter blue.

And that's the Shadeborn done! I'm absolutely stoked with these, the colours go so well together and I love the simplicity of the bases, like it's midnight or something.

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Posted on 8 October 2022, 20:09

A photo of four partially painted miniatures. They're all elves in various dynamic positions and have cloaks that turn into... not quite smoke at the ends, and the cloaks have been painted this INCREDIBLY deep and rich dark purple colour.

Games Workshop released new some paints in their Contrast paint line earlier this year, and they've got some new formulations that mean they can do REALLY pigmented paints. I picked some of them up and am using them on the Shadeborn, and oh man, that purple in particular. 😍

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Posted on 5 October 2022, 23:49